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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2022-01-15 12:00 pm

Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

This post is NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS!  PLEASE POST YOUR NEW PROMPTS HERE, IN POST 2!  Do continue to fill prompts here but please put all new prompts in Post 2.






 
Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!

Here's a Friending meme!

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is an open exchange where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and fill as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want.

What do I do first?
You can start 3SF by posting prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence.

Only one prompt per comment please. So, for example,

Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand."

Open ended and anthropomorphic fills are popular too, such as:

Any, Any, "I don't like sand."

or

Earth geography, sand, "I don't like humans very much, either."

What happens after that?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish. If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again! Multiple fills of the same prompt are allowed and even encouraged! (We get really fun stories going this way).

Can I still post if I need more than 3 sentences? Or should I just abuse grammar in ways the English language never contemplated?
Yes. Yes.

But I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID

I'm really overwhelmed by all the prompts and how much there is and how fast it goes. I can't read 1,000 prompts and fills. It's too much. 
I hear this a lot and it keeps a lot of people from participating.  The 3SF is big and it moves fast, especially at first. 
I get overwhelmed, too, and I'm hosting the thing. With 2020 and 2021 sucking so badly you don't want something that's supposed to be fun cause you anxiety.  I have a couple of suggestions for managing the 3SF volume. 
  • First, really, you don't have to read every prompt and fill on every page.  You can start at the last page of this and just go forward, or back a page or two.  It's fine.
  • You can come and go as time and energy allow, you don't have to participate the whole time, and it drops off quite at bit after about 2 weeks and especially once we open a new post because this one is approaching 4,500 comments.
  • Even after the 3SF and new prompting end, people fill prompts all year long.
  • You can fill an already filled prompt and you can can leave a prompt that's already been prompted before.  People do it all the time. 
Always make sure you're looking at top-level comments only, not threaded. That helps a lot. Your screen should look like this.




But shouldn't I read everything to see if someone already prompted the same prompt I want to leave if someone already filled it? 

No.  Prompt as many times as you want, as much as you want.  It doesn't matter if someone prompted the exact same prompt.  Go ahead and prompt again!

I left a prompt and no one filled it.  Can I prompt it again?
Absolutely!

Can I spread the word?
Yes, please. I generally fail at creating banners and embed codes but if you create one and make it really idiot-proof, I might be able to post and share it.  Feel free to cross-post this entry. If you create your own banners or icons, let me know and I'll share!
Please share the 3SF with your followers, friends, and any channels and comms you are active on.  I'll post on fandom calendar, Tumblr, and Twitter, but I don't have many connections in other spaces such as Discord.

Here's my attempt at a text box that might go horribly awry.






How long will it go?

The 3SF closes to new prompts on February 13, 2022. The entry stays open permanently and people post fills all year long.  (There were a bunch of new posts to the 2021 3SF this week!)

Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. A lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag. 3SFs are a terrific prompt for remixes and could be helpful for Yuletide bears, too.

What about spoilers, content and archive warnings, triggers, pairings, ratings, tags, and squick?
I thought a lot about this. It boils down to reader beware.  In my experience, this typically gets too big, moves too fast, and the stories are too short for content warnings and ratings to even apply. It is too big for me to moderate in this way. You should assume spoilers are fair game and that the initial poster and the responder have opted to use no content warnings or tags. This means AO3 content warnings for dubcon, violence, canon character death, underage, etc. COULD be present (and much more). I've found personally that I can skim and scroll by stuff that, from the prompt, I can tell isn't my favorite flavor of delicious cake. Use your best judgment, protect yourself, and be prepared to skip over things that aren't your thing. In this format, the obligation is on you, the reader, to protect yourself from triggering content.
Some posters do include warnings and spoiler tags or include spoiler space, but they don't have to do so.


Why is 3SF split among several posts?  That seems confusing.
It is confusing and we always lose momentum once we have to move to a second post. The reason is because at 5,000 comments to a single post, DW installs a human test CAPTCHA, which is a pain for users.  So, once this entry gets to the upper 4,000 comments, I open a new post.  If you've been waiting until things slow down to participate, when we open a second post is often a good place to join.

If I have questions, what do I do?

I'm rthstewart everywhere, here, Twitter, Tumblr, gmail and AO3.

A special thank you to [personal profile] conuly  .
Last year, Conuly started logging all unfilled prompts.
This year's (2021) unfilled prompts are here.
Last year's (2020) unfilled prompts are here.
Conuly asks that you not reply, as they want to be able to edit and add more prompts to the list.

 

Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!



      


















tiny_ninja: (ffvi;; nothing to lose but my life)

Re: Rogue One, Jyn/Cassian

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I love this! ♥
sandrine: (Jay/Tim)

[personal profile] sandrine 2022-01-20 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the built-up here, and the way you toy with their history. :D Tim getting down to business without bothering with the pretence of a fight is very Tim.

Thank you! This was pretty much exactly what I was hoping for! ♥
wickedlittletown: (Default)

[personal profile] wickedlittletown 2022-01-20 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
What a great fill for the prompt.
So many emotions in a few words.
watervole: (Default)

Re: Stargate Atlantis - Rodney and Radek

[personal profile] watervole 2022-01-20 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Love it!
tiny_ninja: (ffvi;; nothing to lose but my life)

Final Fantasy VI, Setzer

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Every morning the memories wake him; the Blackjack tearing itself to pieces; Terra's hand slipping from his grasp; the shouts and screams of the other Returners as the world rearranges itself alongside the Warring Triad.

Or maybe it's the pounding headache in the back of his skull, the kind that never fades, and the only remedy is to pour more alcohol down his throat like it can treat the wounds inside his soul - all it does is prolong the hangover further.

Here in Kohlingen, he has a bed and a roof over his head, but his feet are glued to the ground while his heart seeks to soar through the clouds, and it's all Setzer can do to pull the covers over his head and wish he'd crashed with the Blackjack instead.
paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-20 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, antique knife
paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-20 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
lotr, éowyn & any, improved recipes
paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-20 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, birthday cake
paxilam: (Default)

[personal profile] paxilam 2022-01-20 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, night sweats
thenewbuzwuzz: converse on tree above ground (Default)

Re: The Rigel Black Chronicles (murkybluematter), Caelum & Harry

[personal profile] thenewbuzwuzz 2022-01-20 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice, good on him! :)
acequeenking: (Alina-Robe)

[personal profile] acequeenking 2022-01-20 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Isn't this lovely?" Keeley said; Roy winced, his fucked knee still giving him more trouble than he wanted to admit having.

"It's a bloody sunset," he said, wincing; didn't seem like it was worth climbing up a hill for, particularly not mid-winter.

"Oh, don't be such a fuddy-duddy," she scolded gently, no real heat behind it; she pulled out a thermos of hot cocoa, poured him a drink, and kissed his cheek -- and though he wouldn't admit it to a fucking soul, it did make him feel a bit better.
tiny_ninja: (ffvi;; nothing to lose but my life)

Final Fantasy VI, Celes

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you need a dream to chase after, then why don't you find yourself a new one?"

She meant to encourage Setzer, hoping her words would dent the drunken stupor he surrounded himself with, but it echoed within herself too; was this fool's quest to stop Kefka her new dream, or just the only purpose she could summon after the Solitary Island?

Celes' face remained steady, but her mind churned - duty, purpose, atonement, where they all one in the same, or was she using this to prolong addressing her own fears instead of chasing her own dreams?
acequeenking: Persephone - Dante Gabriel Rosetti (Default)

Dress Sense

[personal profile] acequeenking 2022-01-20 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Elle wore pink for their courthouse wedding; of course, she did, what other color would Elle Woods ever be seen in on such an important occasion?

"How do I look?" Elle asked, as if she wasn't dominating the entire courtroom's attention; Vivian smiled, taking it in: the dress was large and elaborate -- sixteen layers of tulle, beading on the bodice that had taken Paulette at least sixteen weekends to help finish, and a train that somehow was exactly the right size to not get caught in the courthouse elevator -- she was pretty sure, somehow, Elle had measured it somehow in between their immigration hearings and the poverty law center she was tirelessly building next to the clerk's office.

"Look very classy on you," she said, and, even if it wasn't traditional, she kissed the bride.
acequeenking: (FF8)

[personal profile] acequeenking 2022-01-20 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh woof that's such a banger of a closer on this one.

I love how much you highlight how complicated the relationship between Terra and Celes is here, and in just so few lines!
acequeenking: (Kimberly)

Power Rangers (MMPR), Finster

[personal profile] acequeenking 2022-01-20 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Finster molded like a crazed man; the clay flew from his fingers, and he could not be distracted from his task, no matter how much Squatt and Bamboo tried.

There wasn't much else to do now that Lord Zedd had come back, and decided that three years of Galactic Overlord classes had made him Better at Monster Making than an artisan with centuries of experience.

He sighed; one day he'd be appreciated by someone -- but until then, there wasn't much to do besides practice his art.
tiny_ninja: (zack;; take your mama out all night)

Power Rangers 2017

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Jason glanced around the pit, wincing at the sight of his so-called team of Rangers.

Kim and Trini bickered in the corner, Kim's face blushing red with every word that Trini slung at her; Billy explained his latest idea to Alpha, complete with flailing hands and a huge grin; Zack tossed popcorn into his mouth, only catching every fifth kernel, but that didn't stop him from ducking and weaving just the same.

"Holy shit," Jason muttered, "we have a lot of work ahead of us."
acequeenking: (Alina-the SUn)

[personal profile] acequeenking 2022-01-20 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the little things, Jesper thinks, that give it away.

They're not the types to wear rings or pledge words in public or any of that -- too compromising on a mission, too risky a chance someone might see it and know you're vulnerable, all that.

But Jesper knows they're as good as married the second Inej's hand lands on his and Kaz lets it stand there for a full minute, and he doesn't bother to hide his widest, most swagger-filled grin at them to show his delight for them; vulnerability, maybe, but only for a second.
wickedlittletown: (Default)

Re: Utena, Anthy+Miki (plus anti-Anthy/Akio, mentions of incest)

[personal profile] wickedlittletown 2022-01-20 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never seen the anime so I read this being totally canon-blind.
I enjoyed reading it since I have a soft spot for everything space related. The part with seeing the iron in the blood was superb.
acequeenking: (Alina-Fancy)

[personal profile] acequeenking 2022-01-20 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"How do you handle it?" Alina asks, breathless, laying on the war-room table beside him. "The death. All the people..."

"I learned not to care," he says; he slides his hand over her cheek and kisses her, a promise that she, one day, will learn to do the same.
raisedbymoogles: (Zidane - flight)

Re: Dress Sense

[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-20 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
omg I love it :D
tiny_ninja: (pr;; go green ranger)

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Inside his armor, Tommy shudders and quakes; his actions play out before him, but they're not his, but that of a stranger, a man possessed by power and vengeance.

He doesn't want to do this; the Rangers, he knows now, are the first friends he's made in Angel Grove and he doesn't want to fuck this up, but still he brings the Dragon Dagger to his lips, plays the sacred melody, watches the Dragonzord rise from the ocean and rain hell on his new home.

He's their worst nightmare and he knows it, and he can't do anything to stop it either.
tiny_ninja: (ravi;; i say everything)

Re: Lost, Desmond

[personal profile] tiny_ninja 2022-01-20 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
My heart!!
acequeenking: (Alina-Fancy)

Re: Safety First, Don’t Push (SoC, Inej (/Kaz maybe?)

[personal profile] acequeenking 2022-01-20 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is lovely.